Avery randomly selects 50 color pencils from my basket advise it to her not sharpened if the basket contains 300 pencils how would you expect to be on sharpened?
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I would expect there to be approximately 20 unsharpened color pencils in the basket out of the 50 randomly selected by Avery. This is because if Avery randomly selects 50 color pencils from a total of 300, she is likely to select about 1/6th of the total which would equate to 50 color pencils. And since there are 1/6th of the total color pencils left, it is reasonable to assume that about 1/6th of those remaining color pencils would be unsharpened. So, 1/6th of 300 = 50 unsharpened color pencils out of the 300 total.